HIPAVE - A Tool to assist in the Mechanistic Empirical Design of Heavy Duty Industrial Flexible Pavements

The HIPAVE (Heavy Industrial PAVEment) layered elastic software program models the effects of detailed payload distributions (spectrum of container weights) by calculating axle loads from vehicle configurations and payloads, also with provision for vehicle wander. HIPAVE handles the variety of equipment used in container facilities, such as forklifts, straddle carriers, gantry cranes and side loaders. Industrial pavements are typically subjected to loading of an order of magnitude greater, making it necessary, for example, to use a different subgrade performance model. The authors observed the absence of a published holistic approach to design that incorporated modern computer software. This fostered the preparation of the Heavy Duty Industrial Pavement Design Guide to assist users of the HIPAVE software, permitting advances in a mechanistic design approach. The Guide presents the authors' attempts to reflect best practice in the design of new construction and rehabilitation of industrial pavements. The Guide steers the designer through key design considerations and suggests external sources for research updates. It is intended to be supplementary to other published design guides with a focus on industrial pavements.

• Corporate Authors:

  International Society for Asphalt Pavements

  4711 Clark Avenue, Suite G
  White Bear Lake, MN  United States  55110
• Authors:
  • Wardle, L
  • Rickards, I
  • LANCASTER, J
• Conference:
  • 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ASPHALT PAVEMENTS - AUGUST 12 TO 17, 2006, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: p. vol2,15-24
• Monograph Title: 10th International Conference on Asphalt Pavements - August 12 to 17, 2006, Quebec City, Canada

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bearing capacity; Bitumen; Conferences; Flexible pavements; Industrial areas; Loads; Pavement design; Weight
• Uncontrolled Terms: Heavy
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01084391
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: TAC
• Created Date: Jan 16 2008 7:52AM